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Parc des Sports (Avignon) S. Pont Saint-Bénézet This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 23:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In 1447, during the residency of Bishop Pierre de Foix, who was the papal legate in Avignon, [4] the town council acquired the apostolic palace from the Benedictines of the Convent of St. Laurence and converted it for municipal use. [5] [6] [7] A clock, equipped with colourful jacquemarts to strike the hour, was installed in the belfry in 1471. [2]
The main courtyard of the museum. The Calvet Museum (French: musée Calvet, pronounced [myze kalvÉ›]) is the main museum in Avignon.Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate Lapidary Museum in the former chapel of the city's Jesuit college on rue de la République.
[1] In Avignon: [2] Bibliothèque Calvet, the main library, housed since 1986 in part of what was once a cardinal's palace, the Livrée Ceccano; Musée Calvet, the main art gallery, housed in an 18th-century city mansion (a hôtel particulier), the Hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan; Médaillier Calvet, a collection of coins and medals
The Palais des Papes (English: Palace of the Popes; lo Palais dei Papas in Occitan) in Avignon, Southern France, is one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe. [1] Once a fortress and palace, the papal residence was a seat of Western Christianity during the 14th century.
The museum is housed in hôtel de Massilian, named after the family which owned it in the 18th century. It was built in 1694 to designs by Jean Péru.Abbé Massilian, historian of Avignon and provost-coadjutor of the church of Saint-Didier there, was born in the hôtel on 11 April 1721. [2]